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A Novel Robot Vision Applicable to Real-time Target Tracking
Kazuhiro Shimonomura*, Keisuke Inoue**, Seiji Kameda*, and Tetsuya Yagi*
*Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
**Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0196 Japan
Received:November 1, 2002Accepted:December 5, 2002Published:April 20, 2003
Keywords:robot vision, silicon retina, FPGA, target tracking
Abstract
We designed a vision system with a novel architecture composed of a silicon retina, an analog CMOS VLSI intelligent sensor, and FPGA. Two basic pre-processes are done with the silicon retina: a Laplacian-Gaussian (∇2G)-like spatial filtering and a subtraction of consecutive frames. Analog outputs of the silicon retina were binarized and transferred to FPGA in which digital image processing was executed. The system was applied to real-time target tracking under indoor illumination. Namely, the center of a target object was found as the median of the binarized image. The object could be tracked within the video frame rate in indoor illumination. The system has a compact hardware and a low power consumption and therefore is suitable for robot vision.
Cite this article as:K. Shimonomura, K. Inoue, S. Kameda, and T. Yagi, “A Novel Robot Vision Applicable to Real-time Target Tracking,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.15 No.2, pp. 185-191, 2003.Data files:
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